(Greek: memory, to remember; recollection of something or someone; awareness, consciousness of the present and the past)

A reference to something that helps or assists people to remember anything more easily; for example, by using a song, a sign, or words: Frank's wife held up a mnemonic card for her husband to see with the words: "Do you remember that tomorrow is my birthday?"

1. One versed in the science of mnemonics; one who teaches how to train and improve the memory, or practices the art of memory. 2. A professional entertainer who practises recollection.

mnemonize

To express by a mnemonic formula.

mnemophobia

An unreasonable apprehension, or abnormal fear, of memories.

Mnemosyne (nee MAHS uh nee)

1. A Titaness, from which we have words meaning "memory," and "mnemonic".
2. The ancient Greek goddess of memory, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea and the mother by Zeus of the Muses.

In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses. Zeus lay with Mnemosyne for nine consecutive nights and thereby created the nine muses.

mnemotaxis, mnemotactic

A directed response of a motile (moving) organism to a memory stimulus.

mnemotechny, mnemotechnic

The art of memory, theoretical and practical; or an artificial method of improving the memory.